Music Reviews
Star Trek: Sound Effects from the Original TV Soundtrack
I am not sure there are very many people that will enjoy this soundtrack, but I sure did! If you are a fan of the original Star Trek, be prepared for an audio treat! On this soundtrack is not music, but actual sound effects that were used on the …
CD KISS DEBUT ALBUM
KISS
A rock and roll classic! One of the best LP’s of the 1970’s.
This was the bands first album and it debuted in 1973 and no one bought it (it ended up going platinum after the band became a worldwide sensation) An underrated masterpiece.
1973 was too early for the world …
Pink Floyd - Flaming (Song)
Flaming is a song by Pink Floyd which appears on their debut record, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. Flaming opens up with a very unconventional sound as it sort of makes you feel as if you’re in the middle of the jungle due to some dark tribal-like …
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 (Song)
Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two is a song by Neutral Milk Hotel and is the final track on their second album In An Aeroplane Over The Sea. Opening up with am ambient-like free atmosphere, this track goes on for about thirty seconds of just free noise effects before an acoustic …
Queen - Under Pressure - Single
There is no doubt that Queen are a band for classics and Under Pressure was another from this category. I suppose when your front man is Freddie, who has an audience in the palm of his hand then you can achieve anything you want.
Funnily enough, Under Pressure, I suppose …
Metallica Death Magnetic
Death Magnetic makes for a nice return to something close to the Metallica of, something that makes me a very happy guy. At times this album can sound a little formulaic, almost like the band doesn’t quite remember what they once were, or how to rediscover that spark. However, …
Falling Down (song) by Avril Lavigne
The meaning of this song is very deep. It takes me a thousand times before I could be able to get the meaning. I am not sure if Avril is the song writer of this song, but if she is, then she deserves to be applauded for writing this …
Soundgarden: Superunknown
Black Hole Sun, do you know it? Of course you do! We all remember that song. 1995 Grammy winners for Best Hard Rock Performance, and Best Metal Peformance with their respective tunes Black Hole Sun and Spoonman, Soundgarden really announced to the world that they were here to say …
Katy Perry’s One Of The Boys Album
One Of The Boys is an album from Katy Perry one of my new favorite singers. The following are sone songs you’ve probably heard before because they are the sigles from the album. They are as follows: I Kissed A Girl, Hot N Cold, Thinking Of You, …
All I want for Christmas (song) by Mariah Carey
I feel the true spirit of Christmas with this song. It is a single by Mariah Carey as part of her fifth album Merry Christmas. I also like the video of it, where Mariah Carey is spending Christmas in the snow with many presents and family. Her ex-husband made …
Riot by Paramore
Paramore’s latest album Riot was a total hit. This rock album has 14 songs on it. All different, some slow, some fast, some hard rock, some soft rock, all with a different meaning. It has For a pessimistic, im pretty optimistic, That’s what you get, Hallelujah, Misery business, when …
Motorhead : Kiss Of Death
If you feel too old to rock music, then leave this kind of music. Please note, the mighty Motorhead Kiss Of Death release that is album from their 31 year existence in the music industry. Looks like Lemmy and his colleagues support extraordinary spirit of playing music. Stay strong …
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy (Song)
Two-Headed Boy is a song by Neutral Milk Hotel and is the fourth song to appear on their record In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. I will admit right away that I’m personally more familiar with Andrew Jackson Jihad’s cover of this song as I heard their cover quite …
Tool Opiate
Opiate is Tool’s first official releases, released on Zoo Entertainment, produced by Tool, Sylvia Massey, and Steve Hansgen. This EP is around 23 minutes in length, with 6 tracks and an additional hidden track titled the gaping lotus experience 6 minutes and 6 seconds into the 6th track. 2 …
Barbra Streisand: Higher Ground CD
What I love the most about Barbra Streisand: Higher Ground CD is that it’s another quality collection of songs that I can put on and just close my eyes to and enjoy them all so very much. No one can match the pitch and beauty of Streisand’s voice. …
Hush Hush by Pussycat Dolls
I am not a hug fan of the Pussycat Dolls, but I really like this song. And I think that what they are singing about in this song happens to a lot of couples at some point in their relationships. But sometimes, it gets a little out of hand …
The Making of the Awake DVD featurette
In actuality, the The Making of the Awake DVD featurette is way too short. It’s more like an overview or even more to the point an explanation as to why the Awake DVD was produced.
The majority of this featurette is Josh Groban discussing the tour and what it …
Love in this Club song by Usher ft. Young Jeezy
Love in this Club is a slow and somehow really addictive song to listen to and also slow dance to. It is sung by Usher and it has a bit of a “bad boy” flare to it as well, which makes the chorus of the song even more appealing …
Animal Collective - Who Could Win A Rabbit (Song)
Who Could Win A Rabbit is a song by Animal Collective and is the second track on their album Sung Tongs. Similar to the opening track, Leaf House, Who Could Win A Rabbit features instrumentation which is far more stripped down in comparison to the previous record, Here Comes …
The Best Of 1980-1990 by U2
Best of and greatest hits CD’s are always worth a good review regardless of the singer/band, which is what led me to writing this review. Hope this review will persuade you to by this CD is you haven’t done so already. Good music at any price!
U2 The Best …
Slayer - Chemical Warfare (Song)
Chemical Warfare is a song by Slayer which appears on their EP Haunting The Chapel. The track starts off with a very fast chugging riff from the two guitars before Lombardo and Araya come in with the drum and bass parts respectively. Something that I always remembered about Chemical …
Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying (Song)
No Prayer For The Dying is the title track of a record put out by Iron Maiden. The song starts off right away with a melodic guitar lead which I swear I’ve heard before in another Maiden song but I can’t remember exactly where it came from, it reminds …
Lonesome Crowded West, 1997 Album by Modest Mouse
I think that this is not a very good full length album for a band like Modest Mouse. I remember how I first started listening to it after I listened to their first full length album, and I did not enjoy this record at all. It was because I …
Animal Collective - Winters Love (Song)
Winters Love is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their record Sung Tongs. Split into two unique sections, Winters Love first opens up with an instrumental section led by an acoustic guitar pattern (Though there is some vocal humming over the top of this) before going into …
Nine Inch Nails - Head Down (Song)
Head Down is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their record The Slip. The track opens up with a slightly sloppy sounding drum and bass part along with a distorted guitar joining in, I’m not sure that sloppy is the most accurate word to be using …
Green Day - Know Your Enemy (Music Video)
Overview —“ Know Your Enemy, the first single and music video released by Green Day for their latest record 21st Century Breakdown features simple parts and structure yet still very catchy music in the song. I’ll admit that when I first heard Know Your Enemy, I really didn’t think …
“Take As Needed For Pain” by Eyehategod (LP, 1993)
In 1993, almost exactly a year after releasing their intense, grinding masterpiece debut, “In The Name Of Suffering”, the benchmark album of all Sludge, Eyehategod released their second record, “Take As Needed For Pain”. With this release, they set the standard even higher for Sludge- something that didn’t …
Temples of Boom, 1995 Album by Cypress Hill
When I got hold of this album I honesty did not expect to be that good. It so happened that I first got acquainted with Cypress Hill albums released in 1999 and 2000, and only then moved on to their earlier releases. And, the early releases were rather good, …
album : Vivid Remorse - The Seed Of Malaise (2010)
After listening to the self titled debut from Vivid Remorse it damned on me that every now and then there is a really good reason that a lot of poepl haven’t heard of a certain band. look, the album is okay if you like old school thrash metal mixed …
She thinks my tractors sexy by Kenny Chesney
She thinks my tractors sexy by Kenny Chesney is a song for a guy who lives on a farm and has a girl friend who likes tractors. This song also ditches all other vehicles other than tractors. I listen to this song all the time because it talks …
Singer Kid Rock
If you want to talk about a diverse singer, Kid Rock would be the one. He changes sides so often that you almost can’t keep up with him. He goes from songs like “American Badass” to “Picture” without batting an eyelash. Honestly, I don’t even know what genre that …
After the Loving by Engelbert Humperdink
This is one of the most romantic songs ever recorded as far as I am concerned. Engelbert Humperdink was well known for his romantic songs. This is absolutely the love song of the century. Engelbert has one of those voices that had the ability to melt women’s hearts. He …
Rhythm and Voice of Cultural CD Music
I recently just bought 2 CDs, which have a cultural mix to it, each costing between $19 - $23. I love different cultures and traditions all around the world, and it includes African and Latin music. The first CD is called Acoustic Africa. This CD features …
Self Made Vol. 1 by Maybach Music Group
At first I thought this collaboration album was going to be below average on my expectations but I was dead wrong. The Maybach Music Group (MMG) consists of rappers; Rick Ross, Wale, Meek Mill, Pill, Teedra Moses and Gunplay. Their first collaboration album titled ” Self Made Vol. 1″ …
Song : Stan by Eminem
Eminem has always been an artist who I equally admire or loathe depending on the day. At his best I find him to be a brilliant, profound writer who really captures emotions and thoughts skillfully in his music and words. At his worst he is childish and …
Green Day - King For A Day (Song)
King For A Day is a song by Green Day which appears on their album Nimrod. The song opens up with a very humorous sounding rhythm due to the use of a trumpet and a very moving bass line, you’d have to hear it to understand what I’m trying …
Queen - It’s a Kind of Magic - Simple
It’s by Queen, so to that extent you think that it has to be a classic. It sounds good, Freddie leads it and it just sounds so passionate and inspired throughout.
Yet listen closely to the lyrics and this all sound pretty mad to me.
I can comfortably state that I …
System Of A Down - Dreaming (Song)
Dreaming is a song by System Of A Down which appears on the second half of their double record Mezmerize/Hypnotize. Dreaming starts off with a very quick guitar riff from Malakian which has an interesting sound before an extremely powerful drum rhythm along with the bass and Tankian’s vocals …
Kid Cudi (rapper)
A coworker of mine hipped me to this guy. I had never heard of him. But as soon as I took a listen to his lead single “Day n Nite” I was immediately hooked. This rapper is from Cleveland; and I have the feeling that …
Frank Zappa- Montana ( song)
In the song Montana off the Apostrophe album Zappa explains his life as if he were a cattle rancher in the state of Montana. The vocals in this song are interesting because Frank utilizes a lot of metaphors like dental floss being compared to rope it’s kind of funny. …
Church
Church by T-pain is a song that plays towards the begging of the movie step up 2 where they have the dance off between Tyler and Andy. It is a very cool song for the dance they do. I like the song because it talks about how this …
Don Lennon Maniac
Rising from the ashes of Boston rock group The Umpteens, former front man Don Lennon has crafted a collection of songs marking his debut cult-classic album “Maniac”. Sharing the same surname as a former Beatle, although it may be a pseudonym, it is certain he would have made John …
Nine Inch Nails - Heresy (Song)
Heresy, one of the darkest sounding Nine Inch Nails tracks throughout their entire discography, is a track which appears on what is considered the band’s best work, The Downward Spiral. I just finished reviewing the track Only which I reviewed as being pretty eerie but not so much of …
System Of A Down - Revenga (Song)
Revenga is a song by System Of A Down which appears on the first half of their double record Mezmerize/Hypnotize. Revenga opens up with some clean sustained guitar chords played above a pounding kick drum rhythm. The song then transitions into a much faster and more aggressive section which …
Bootylicious (2001): Destiny’s Child
Artist: Destiny’s Child
Video: Bootylicious
Album: Survivor
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Matthew Rolston
“Bootylicious” is the second single and music video from Destiny’s Child’s third album titled “Survivor”, following the last single and music video “Survivor”. Matthew Rolston directs this time around and everything looks somewhat like a badly-ripped off clone of Christina Aguilera’s …
Hype Magazine
I must admit, the one thing that drew me to buying this magazine in the beginning, was the notion of getting a —˜free’ cover Compact Disc at a price equivalent to just under one US Dollar, at the time (around 2006).
I turned out to be a very good buy …
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